So here’s former Trump White House press secretary-turned-Fox News host and it’s not like there’s any fucking difference anyway Kayleigh McEnany telling the rest of the idiots the couch this morning that, although she wasn’t as the December 4th, 2020 meeting in which her convicted felon former boss screamed “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” after getting a bill from the family of slain US Army solider Vanessa Guillen – a bill he had promised to pay personally and did not, according to the family’s lawyer – Kayleigh insists that Trump never said those words.
Kayleigh however doesn’t say whether or not he had offered to pay for it or did pay for it. Shitty children’s book author/Mike Flynn acolyte/far right conspiracy freak/former national security official Kash Patel on the other hand was there, but said only Trump promised to pay for it in a very carefully worded statement to Atlantic writer Jeff Goldberg, via Trump spokesworm Alex Pfeiffer:
As someone who was present in the room with President Trump, he strongly urged that Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s grieving family should not have to bear the cost of any funeral arrangements, even offering to personally pay himself in order to honor her life and sacrifice. In addition, President Trump was able to have the Department of Defense designate her death as occurring ‘in the line of duty,’ which gave her full military honors and provided her family access to benefits, services, and complete financial assistance.
Note how Patel (or Pfeiffer) only said “offering to personally pay himself,” and not “paid.”
Next, we picked up this tweet right after the story broke, but it’s worth revisiting:
I was in the discussions featured in the Atlantic’s latest hit piece against President Trump. Let me say this.
Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false.
He was nothing but kind, gracious, and…
— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) October 22, 2024
After the cutoff, Meadows – who has been sued by his book publisher for lying in the text – wrote in the tweet that Trump “was nothing but kind, gracious, and wanted to make sure that the military and the US government did right by Vanessa Guillen and her family,” emphasis ours. See, at first it looks like he was actually denying that Trump had refused but it actually turns out that this is a denial that Trump had even offered at all, directly contradicting what Patel said about an offer to pay it.
Then there’s Guillen’s sister, cited in the clip of McEnany:
Wow.
I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics- hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today. https://t.co/o8cDrKOKBV— Mayra Guillen (@mguilen_) October 22, 2024
Mayra suffered a horrific loss and whatever her grief drives her to do is not for us to judge. That said, this is in lockstep with a pattern we’ve already seen with the families of the Marines killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal bombing where an inconsistency arises. With the Arlington National Cemetery mess, the Trump team had tried to make it seem like it had been a public ceremony marking the anniversary of their deaths that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris skipped out of cowardice, but later, in what was supposed to be a defense of Trump, one of them said that they had requested it and invited Trump. Meaning it was a campaign event. Here, Mayra kind of does the same thing by not actually saying “President Trump sent us a check for the $60,000 on December 5, 2020. I have the deposit receipt right here on my screen. See?”
Now the lawyer, Natalie Khawam, who Goldberg wrote “told me she sent the bill to the White House, but no money was ever received by the family from Trump,” tweeted this after the story dropped:
After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story.
More… https://t.co/uJtfsNTo37— Attorney Natalie Khawam (@WhistleblowerLF) October 22, 2024
Continued after the cutoff: “More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder… for cheap political gain. I would like to also point out that the timing of this ‘story’ is quite suspicious, as this supposed conversation that Trump had would have occurred over 4 years ago! Why a story about it now?! As everyone knows, not only did Trump support our military, he also invited my clients to the Oval Office and supported the I Am Vanessa Guillen bill too. I’m grateful we were successful in getting bipartisan support of the I Am Vanessa Guillen Act, and because of everyone’s hard work and efforts our service members now have more protections and rights while serving our country.” Again, nothing about whether or not Trump paid the $60,000.
Goldberg wrote that “Shortly after I emailed a series of questions to a Trump spokesperson, Alex Pfeiffer, I received an email from Khawam, who asked me to publish a statement from Mayra Guillén, Vanessa’s sister. Pfeiffer then emailed me the same statement. ‘I am beyond grateful for all the support President Donald Trump showed our family during a trying time,’ the statement reads. ‘I witnessed firsthand how President Trump honors our nation’s heroes’ service. We are grateful for everything he has done and continues to do to support our troops.’ Pfeiffer told me that he did not write that statement, and emailed me a series of denials,” with the only one being from Patel.
Today we went to church and prayed for the victim that died trying to save his family during the attempted assassination.
I decided to post these pictures of our meeting in the Oval Office because we need remember that Trump also supported the I Am Vanessa Guillen Act. When I… pic.twitter.com/qY5nFwjF4R— Attorney Natalie Khawam (@WhistleblowerLF) July 15, 2024
We don’t know if Khawam was 100 percent MAGA before Goldberg reached out to Pfeiffer. Our guess is probably not given that at first she had told him the bill was never paid. But it’s obvious she’s been flipped since then and probably rather quickly at that given it was her at first who responded to Goldberg. God knows how much Trump donor money Mayra Guillen was paid off to tweet that not-really-a-denial plus that she voted for the fat fuck.
The bottom line is that it’s on Goldberg to produce whatever texts or emails Khawam sent telling him that the Guillen family had told her that the bill was never paid. He’s already inserted the knife, now’s the time to carve it across the flabby, soft, orange underbelly of this porcine beast.